Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

William looked back hesitantly, but the scene in the direction he came from definitely showed a modern architectural style.

Finally, when Elus, the last member of the team, reached the other end of the door, the automatic door closed without warning, and disappeared from William's sight.

"Hey, what is this place?? [Different World]...?" Elus asked a bit dullly.

"Although I really want to complain that you use the term "different world" every time you go to a new place... But this time, it does barely meet the definition of "different world" for us."

As soon as the voice fell, the surroundings filled with red sand suddenly "missed a piece" - just like a black block horizontally in the field of vision when a bug occurs in a simulation game.

Lin Yu stretched out his hand and carefully touched the black lump, but unexpectedly, the black lump spread to half of the surrounding area in the blink of an eye. He noticed the binary sequence of "0"s and "1"s flashing in the black blocks.

"My dear guests, welcome to the Beyond of Dreams."

The male voice that made Lin Yu feel very familiar echoed in front of his field of vision. The man who appeared in the white screen transformed from the black blocks walked out with his hands in the pockets of his coat. The stubble and messy hair on his face made him look too unkempt.

"It's you again... the guy who calls himself Professor Huan! Hand over Su Luoyang to me—"

Lin Yu took a few steps forward and reached out to grab the professor standing in front of him, but his arm passed through his body. After a few seconds of dullness, Lin Yu realized that what appeared here was a similar data body, and withdrew his hand with a snort.

"'Holographic Projection'...is that right?"

Before Feng Chenghuan could reply, another female voice sounded from this place known as the beyond dream.

"Feng Chenghuan, you shouldn't be here - as I said before, the guests here don't bother you to entertain them, just go and finish what you should do."

The woman who suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision waved her hand slightly to the right, and the professor's phantom instantly disappeared in the data of "0" and "1" like an icon thrown into the recycle bin. He wanted to justify or fight for it. The words also turned into mechanical noises and disappeared together.

Xia Yinci stared quietly at the woman in front of her, and said with some certainty, "You already knew we were here, right?"

"Otherwise, do you think that the Core Research Association is so easy to break in?"

"Yeah, when I saw all the mercenaries outside the door, I felt a little strange."

At this time, half of the space had lost the holographic projection room, revealing more than a dozen hospital beds placed side by side. These are the experimental subjects of the Core Research Association, Xia Yinci knew that Su Ruoyang was also on a certain hospital bed. But he seemed to be on the side where the holographic projection could not be released, and Xia Yinci could not find him yet.

On the other hand, at the junction of holographic projection and reality, Su Guokai sits on a seat connected to several devices. He closed his eyes tightly as if unconsciously, and the display screen connected to his head showed a piece of red sand with a strange tower standing in the center.

"This is the reproduction of Su Guokai's dream world." Xia Yinci looked around as if talking to herself, and the president admitted without trying to hide it.

The president really wanted to use holographic projection to project a panorama of Su Guokai's dream world, so as to speed up the efficiency of the task of finding out where the password was hidden.

However, finding the password is not something the president needs to do personally. That has to be done by lucid dream masters. The president only needs to be in charge of controlling the simulation equipment here to ensure that those rulers have entered her target position without error.

"So... the dream image recording system, has it been completed..." William looked around the scene with a weak tone.

"Hey~ Isn't this William?" The president jokingly said, "I didn't expect you to be among the distinguished guests who visited~"

"If you didn't know that I would come, you wouldn't design a disturbance specifically for me." William's tone became a little more serious, and he raised his hand to point to the corner of the room. On the hospital bed there lay a barren and emaciated young man.

In the hall just now, the reason why William deliberately didn't take the path Xia Yinci chose was because Chart was in the laboratory in that direction. ——Since he couldn't wake up, Chart was brought to the Core Research Association for "related treatment."

In the final analysis, William really didn't want this action to affect Chart, but he didn't expect that the president still decided that he would come, because William didn't expect that the "dream image recording system" had been completed unconsciously.

If William had known about this earlier, he would have guessed that the president could easily detect his actions in the dream world with the help of the recording system, so as to formulate related plans.

It was precisely because of William's lack of this information that the president, who didn't know whether he could fight against the Dominator in reality, deliberately used holographic projections to exchange the positions of the two corridors, thus separating William and the Dominator. The authors were brought in.

"You actually want to use the power of the ruler to get rid of our control over you~ I said, William.Andres, do you not understand our power correctly, or do you not value your children enough at all?"

"This kind of thing...you have no right to say it!" The male voice was suspected to be coming from the speaker device. Moreover, it wasn't until he reached the second half of the sentence that his voice was adjusted to a clear level.

This is the voice from Su Guokai's subconscious mind, and it is precisely because his subconscious mind is persistently resisting outside intruders that the chairman has not succeeded in finding the key to open the book until now.

"Oh, Su Guokai~ I don't want to hear your voice again, or resist~ Honestly——"

Before she finished speaking, a bright purple light hit the president's body in an instant, interrupting her words. Following this force, the president leaned back, his eyes slowly locked on Elus who was attacking.

"It's impolite to interrupt someone else."

Elus didn't pay attention to her words, she raised her scepter and pointed it directly at the other party, and the magic power that had been stored for a long time was slowly generated from the tip. Elus held down the pointed hat that was rolled up by the airflow, while stabilizing her hand scepter.

Suddenly, a light wave shining with burning dark red flames shot out like a thunderbolt, and when it touched the president's body, it instantly swept her into the flames. Elus, who was frowning, stared at the flames that were getting weaker and weaker.

"Is this the end...?" Just halfway through the sentence, Lin Yu felt a strong shock, "It seems that it is obviously not over yet!"

Lin Yu looked in the direction of the source of the earthquake, and saw hospital beds, chairs, or equipment—all the scenes in the laboratory were instantly swallowed up by black blocks that spread like a virus, "0" and "1" The flashing numbers filled half of the field of vision, and then transformed into a complete scene of red sand.

"Watch out the sides!"

Just as William's warning came to Elus, a huge figure pierced the air like an arrow. Elus immediately turned the scepter to prop up the defensive shield, but the shield only resisted for a second before it was immediately cracked by the giant palm swung down by the opponent. Su Erin immediately hugged Elus, who was unable to resist, and dodged to the side.

"Successful! Finally... successful! The synchronization rate of the world layer can indeed be interfered by human beings~"

The female voice rippling with echoes came from the mouth of this huge monster wrapped in smoke in front of everyone.

"Hey, where did this guy come from? Is it a product of holographic projection?" Lin Yu asked.

"No... for us, this is the "real" reality." Su Huilin, who had fought with him for a while, immediately broke Lin Yu's positive delusion about the status quo.

Xia Yinci suddenly understood something from Su Huilin's words, and asked urgently: "Hey, are you...you let us in on purpose?"

The giant creature suspected of being the president did not respond to Xia Yinci's question. To be precise, she seemed not to have adapted to the new body, so she didn't even hear Xia Yinci's question. However, Xia Yinci was echoed by another voice in the air——it came from Su Guokai's deep consciousness.

"Yes... Even though Rong Tan Street is the junction of dreams and reality, the synchronization rate is still stable at a certain value, maintaining a dynamic balance, and leaning more towards the side of reality. Therefore, the president has always wanted to use the dream of the ruler The existence of the world, the turbulent Rongtan Street area originally tended to a stable synchronization rate. The fact that you rulers—"the image of the ruler who is supposed to appear in the image of reality, but is forced to stabilize in the dream world" is extremely The fluctuation of the synchronization rate is caused to a large extent, which shakes the shackles of the world layer, so the synchronization rate is more and more inclined to the dream side!"

"But why on earth did this guy do this!" Lin Yu wondered.

"I have known her for nearly twenty years, and her sole purpose is to find out the origin of the world. After she discovered that the conclusions of many facts pointed to dreams, she began to get involved in this field, but she has been stuck in the inability to carry out The physique of a lucid dream."

"So she wants to take advantage of the special junction of Rong Tan Street to enter the dream world with a body that does not have a dream-controlling physique?!"

Lin Yu said and looked at the giant creature that had been stagnant for a long time. The smoke wrapped around it dissipated, and its appearance was clearly shown—although it was humanoid, it was twice as tall as an ordinary adult. There is more than enough, and at the same time the body is composed of "0" and "1" and pure black nothingness.

"Su Guokai, I'm glad you know me so well, but you're only half right."

The giant whose body slowly turned to the rulers suddenly jumped up, and his raised fist hit Lin Yu with his body, and Elus who was beside him quickly threw out his scepter to form a defensive magic circle. After a few seconds of stalemate with the condensed magic power, the fist shattered the shield and hit the giant sword swung by the girl who suddenly appeared in front of Lin Yu. William also set up the firearm that was at hand before and pointed it at the giant, but when he fired, he found that there was no bullet.

"Except for the desire to belong to the owner of this body——the desire to explore the origin of the world. Apart from this desire, I just want to go home."

The voice from Su Guokai's deep consciousness couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.

He finally understood.

This is not only the president's own wish, but also the will produced by the wisdom that was fused with the president's body at the beginning.

He began to doubt.

If this will hadn't been brought back at the beginning, wouldn't the chairman's original wish not have expanded to this point?

Did her inhuman act come from her own intention, or did it come from the command that blended with her?

But in any case—whether this assumption is true or not, the current Su Guokai has no room to think about these things.

After all, not only the chairman is involved, Feng Chenghuan is also trying to steal the password of the device on the other side.

Finally, Su Guokai's deep consciousness made up his mind. William, who was about to throw away the gun without bullets, heard Su Guokai's voice again.

"Don't throw it away, it's usable! The dream world is the "cognitive world", and the presence or absence of bullets is just a perception of the state of things. The idea of ​​making bullets is easier than using imagination to create guns, Right?"

"Shut up, I don't want to hear your voice again, Su Guokai! You pulled me out of the dream world, and now you want to prevent me from going back?"

"I can't stop you. But because you want to go back at the cost of your son's life, I can't let you do it no matter what."

"You don't understand at all... Su Luoyang was born into this world with a mission to send me back—"

While the president roared hysterically, the giant's waved palm grabbed Elus who was dodging a step back, and the tea cat immediately swung the huge sword in his hand and slashed at the giant's arm, but it only resulted in a collision as if the sword collided with steel. A voice sounded, and the thin girl was lifted up by the safe and sound arm.

At this time, Elus also quickly squeezed out the magic power to prop up several magic circles around her, and the giant's fingers were also stretched a certain distance.

"It's simply unsightly, such a small skill."

The president twisted his fingers and increased the strength bit by bit. The magic circle around Elus suddenly cracked, and then the first line of defense was shattered with a "click", and after a short moment, they began to move inward one after another. One cracked, and the distance that was finally opened quickly narrowed——

At this moment, the sound of the gun pierced through the air, like something in a kaleidoscope ejected from the muzzle, and hit the giant's arm more powerfully than the bullet, and bounced his arm a meter away.

Elus immediately opened the giant's fingers while taking advantage of this moment. The moment she was about to fall to the ground, the magic circle that appeared on the ground changed into a cloud-like velvet that caught her, bounced her off like a trampoline, and made her fall to the nearby ground.

"Xia Yinci, your ability to control is to control the gravity around you, right?"

This time Su Guokai's voice sounded from Xia Yinci's ear. After Xia Yinci heard his voice, she seemed a little embarrassed.

"Yes...but if you use it, everyone will be implicated."

"Be sure to remember my words—"The dream world is the world of cognition", this is the first and most important sentence in the teachings I snatched from believers who believe in dreams. As for making everyone suffer The implication is the result of your unilateral cognition."

"I'll try my best."

After finishing speaking, Xia Yinci turned around and looked at Su Huilin, motioning for her to help her get around behind the giant. So, while the giant was fighting against Elus and the others in front, Su Huilin led Xia Yinci to sneak behind the giant. The president also seemed to realize that there was a sneak attack behind him, so he quickly turned around and tried to stop them.

However, just as she turned around, her back was suddenly bombarded in turn. The moment the president waved his palm, Su Huilin also pulled Xia Yinci to avoid the blow one step faster, and threw Xia Yinci To the vicinity of this giant. Everyone was also immediately ready to quickly retreat to a certain distance.

The closest target in the field of vision was only Xia Yinci. However, when she wanted to get rid of one of them first, Xia Yinci immediately put heavy pressure on her hands. The mutated gravity caused the red sand to show a tendency to sink. Within the effective range of the ability, it clearly creates a trace with the outside world.

At the same time, the giant's body also slowly tilted down. But what Xia Yinci didn't expect was that the giant suddenly used all his strength to stand firm in the red sand just after falling down. Immediately afterwards, it used its own huge strength to get rid of the abnormal gravity, and approached Xia Yinci at a relatively fast speed.

This is something that has never happened so far. It is reasonable that the giant should be pulled by the more terrifying gravity because of its huge weight. But it seemed that because its own strength was far greater than the gravitational force of the mutation, it could easily break free from Xia Yinci's obstruction.

Xia Yinci continued to strengthen the weight of gravity, but finally insisted on reaching the dangerous distance where the giant could pose a threat to her, and had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​continuing to use the dominance ability. Her eyes briefly cornered with Elus's and then let go. Elus immediately took Xia Yinci's place and made a gesture to restrain the giant.

Seeing this, Lin Yu, who barely had time to think with the help of the tea cat in front of him, understood that even if it was more versus less, his own strength was obviously not superior to the opponent's. He immediately turned his attention to Su Huilin who was pulling Xia Yinci out of the danger zone, and intentionally and mistakenly opened up his control ability fully.

Doing so can have other effects besides one person with thousands of faces, for example, it can be used as a medium for information transmission.

"Su Erin, is there a way for you to use your control ability to order her to stop?"

"I've thought about it too, but it's very likely to fail... After all, if the opponent's will is far stronger than mine, rashly using the dominance ability will cause me to be backlashed by my own domination ability."

"According to this guy's almost crazy will... Her willpower must be terribly obsessed." Lin Yu grabbed the bangs on his forehead irritably, "It seems that this method will not work, Su Huilin will definitely It must have been backfired."

"It's really impossible to do it if only Su Huilin is alone..." Another voice broke into the communication channel between the two without authorization. If Shanglin Yu is to be mentioned, it is not impossible for Su Huilin to do it, maybe he can control the opponent's will."

Lin Yu didn't understand Xia Yinci's meaning at first, but after a few seconds, his hand rubbing bangs suddenly stopped.

"What do you mean...!?"

At the same time, Else's magical power, which was in a stalemate with the giant, was gradually depleted by half. She immediately backed away, trying to distance herself from the other party, so as to create room for her to breathe. However, the other party seemed to be aware of Elusi's thoughts, and the president suddenly made a posture like an athlete starting, and when he stepped on his feet, cracks like spider webs burst out. back.

"It's a creature of the Titan race, but what do you want to do with such agility! This strange world...!"

In the distance, William aimed his gun at the giant running towards Elus. The moment he pulled the trigger, the chairman turned slightly, and the flickering numbers on the waving arm suddenly turned into pure black, like a kaleidoscope. The bullet of Zhizhi's creation was suddenly refracted by the arm, and the trajectory of the bullet deviated from the direction of the tea cat and Lin Yu.

Sensing the danger, the tea cat quickly mobilized its arms, rotated the sword body, and fell into a stalemate while blocking the bullets.

"Damn it..." William gritted his teeth and immediately called out the dreamer's name. "Ink dye—!"

Mo Ran, who suddenly appeared behind the constantly moving back tea cat, quickly took a step forward and swung the rapier. The shattered bullets were suddenly bounced to both sides, saving the tea cat's giant sword. Lin Yu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, anxious and unable to tolerate haste, he looked in Elus' direction.

As if confirming that Elus is the most troublesome one among these rulers, the president and Elus continued to draw closer. Just when Elus was hesitating whether to use the remaining magic power, he suddenly heard Lin Yu's instructions . Elus immediately turned away from the direction of the scepter, aiming at the giant's feet.

Two magic circles appeared at the positions where the giant's feet were about to step on, and then suddenly began to operate. So, the moment the giant stepped on his right foot, the nearby red sand immediately moved unnaturally, and after just a few seconds, it directly covered the giant's stump-like heel.

"Hehe. It's useless...how can a mere amount of sand hold me back?"

The red sand covering the president's feet began to vibrate violently. Elus quickly passed through Lin Yu's communication channel and shouted to the hesitant Xia Yinci, "Xia Yinci! Hurry up now", and at the same time she also pretended to be with her The giant stalled for time.

Hearing Elus' call for help, Xia Yinci had no choice but to quickly adjust her breathing.

She didn't know if she could do it without affecting the existence other than the president, and she didn't know if she could work together with Elus to contain it.

But if you want to win the chance of Lin Yu and Su Huilin's cooperation, you can only bet on this.

——"The world of dreams is the world of cognition."

It does not matter.

As long as you believe in this rule, you can do things that you couldn't do before in this dream world.

The president's right foot was about to break free from the covered quicksand. Elus gritted her teeth and squeezed out the magic power all over her body. With her coquettish cry, a six-pointed star appeared around its legs and quickly extended upwards. The remaining magic power was also consumed. Sporadic.

"I've said it before. Quicksand can't hold me back—"

The roaring sound vibrated under Elus' feet. Xia Yinci quickly twisted the force of gravity downward with all her strength, and ensured that this force would not affect her companions. Everyone held their breath tightly, ready to be implicated, but when the giant's half body finally sank into the quicksand——

"—Successful!"

Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes, and there was a strange force in his body that was not oppressive. Although he was near Xia Yinci, he was not implicated. He immediately ran to the red sand piled up like a hill, and the giant whose chest was covered by quicksand stared at Lin Yu.

But when Lin Yugang wanted to use "One Person Thousand Faces", his feet suddenly trembled violently. Lin Yu fell down along with this shock, he immediately grabbed Hongsha to prevent himself from rolling down, then he cast his gaze down, only to see that Xia Yinci's ability to control seemed to be beginning to waver.

"Tsk... Sure enough, Xia Yinci still lacks a certain level of proficiency..."

Lin Yu understood that if the current situation continued, although they would not be affected by gravity, the abnormal gravity controlled by the inexperienced Xia Yinci could not last for a long time, and would continue to weaken over time. According to the strange power of this giant, it can easily break free.

"You alone, there is no way to control me——never."

The red sand covering her feet trembled violently, and Lin Yu, who was hanging in the middle, was also shaken down.

"Eluth! Help them!" William quickly looked at Eluth, but just as Eluth was about to raise his hand, he supported himself on the staff with a burst of weakness.

The giant's hands broke free from the red sand, and the palms rested on the red sand, exerting force downwards, and the body broke free even more under the shaking.

At this moment, the bell rang suddenly - in the cracks of the dream in the distance, the two hands of the ruler's clock suddenly accelerated from a clockwise direction, tremblingly turning to the numbers seven and nine. These are the numbers corresponding to Xia Yinci and Elus respectively.

Suddenly, a ray of light flashed in the eyes of Elus and Xia Yinci almost at the same time. Xia Yinci, who was leaning backwards, sank her hands again, and suddenly the weight increased several times and pressed on the president's body. Her arm supporting Hongsha also suddenly bent her elbow. The tip of the scepter covered by Elus's palm glowed, and a huge magic circle spread out around it, and the red sand quickly covered its palm.

"It's the 'Fantasy Clock'...Su Huohuo..." While speaking, Xia Yinci's gaze turned to the right involuntarily.

Occupied by the sudden black block, the entire right side is vacant, showing Su Luoyang lying on the hospital bed who has not yet woken up, like a phantom between the subtle boundaries between reality and dreams.

"You did it right?"

There was no answer, but Xia Yinci vaguely noticed a smile on the corner of the boy's mouth. The faint smile that appeared on Su Ruoyang's face at this moment made Xia Yinci seem to be able to recall the boy who had the title of "Black Death".

Although she didn't even know if that smile was her hallucination, because the sudden black block was replaced by the scene of Hongsha in the next second.

However, the heavily bound giant still did not intend to stop struggling.

"It is absolutely impossible for you to prevent me from meeting the Creator... because this is the mission of the "Holy Infant", I must go back there——"

While speaking, its arms broke away from the red sand and raised up tremblingly, stretching out to Xia Yinci, who was standing in place and unable to move due to the control of gravity. William, who was next to him, observed this sign, and quickly pulled the trigger, causing the flying bullets to knock off its arm.

"Hey! You two must not relax! This guy has no intention of giving up!"

While circling with the raised arms of the giant, avoiding her palms that were about to close to grab him, William issued a warning to Xia Yinci and Su Huilin.

As for Su Huilin, taking advantage of this excellent opportunity, he quickly opened up the pair of gorgeous jet-black wings on his back, held up Lin Yu who was looking at him from the side, and waved his wings towards the president, speeding up the flight. past.

"Wow..."

To be hugged and dragged away by the bad girl without saying a word... And the other party is my student!

Lin Yu suppressed the complaints in her heart, and saw that Su Huilin quickly dodged the president's fist that was thrown at them, coordinated with William's offensive, went around and finally stopped in front of her struggling eyes.

"I may be 'down' for a while...I'll let you know when the time comes."

"Hmm. Please hurry."

Xia Yinci's plan is to use Lin Yu's "one person with thousands of faces" to collect information - when Lin Yu assimilates into the president's appearance, the controlling ability will collect the relevant data of the president. From this, they can get the information that will shake the president's will; after that, they can use Su Huilin's "Devil Command" to activate the effect—combining the information obtained by Lin Yu to make an order that allows her to leave here, and then they will be able to deal with the situation. A leader whose will is shaken has an effect.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Yu's eyes instantly burst into a blood-red flower of flame. An ancient clock with a deep red hue appeared in his pupils miraculously. The moment the pointer trembled towards 12, the flash of light flew straight into the president's eyes.

The pair of pupils made up of binary numbers "0" and "1" that tried to dodge in vain, were assimilated into the same color by the flame.

All of a sudden, - consciousness, thinking, memory, existence, emotion...all the elements that make up the character of the chairman were pressed into Lin Yu's mind in an instant, as if trying to break his body. Unknowingly, Lin Yu's field of vision suddenly plunged into darkness, and was replaced by another scene in the blink of an eye.

——like a church with a high tower used for worship in a primitive village far behind the advanced era.